Frederic W. Grannis Jr., M.D.

 

Department of Thoracic Surgery

City of Hope National Medical Center

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Medical School:

New York Medical College

Board Certification:
Thoracic Surgery

 

SUMMARY:

 Frederic W. Grannis Jr. M.D. has been a member of the medical staff of City of Hope National Medical Center since 1980. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Thoracic Surgery. He is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Diego. He is board certified in thoracic surgery.
Dr. Grannis completed his undergraduate education at Boston College and his medical studies at New York Medical College . He completed general and thoracic surgical training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and spent two years as Assistant Chief of Surgery at the U.S.Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. After 20 years in private practice in Arcadia , California, he joined the full-time faculty of City of Hope in 1996.
Dr. Grannis’ primary clinical and research interests are in the prevention, early detection, surgical treatment and palliation of lung cancer. In the full knowledge that reduction of lung cancer mortality in United States will require multiple strategic approaches, he also is a tobacco control advocate and researcher, and does research in primary prevention and smoking cessation. He has developed new, minimally invasive techniques for the palliative management of malignant effusions of the pleura and pericardium, as well as surgical techniques for the management of locally-advanced lung cancer with metastasis to mediastinal lymph nodes.
Dr. Grannis is currently a primary investigator in two separate component studies of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP). These studies investigate lung cancer screening and post-treatment surveillance using a special protocol based on low-dose noncontrast spiral computerized tomography of the chest. Definitive results of this trial in thescreening of 35,000 study subjects will be published in the coming year and will drive changes in the modern management of lung cancer.
Dr. Grannis is the author of more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles, textbook chapters, abstracts, posters and other publications. He is a member of the Member National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Guideline Panel on Non-small-cell Lung Cancer, the Steering and Thoracic Surgical Committees of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lung Cancer Online Research Foundation.